Eric van Dijk is VP Operations HVDC at McDermott and was the Executive Project Director for the Scarborough FPU project. Eric has worked in the Energy industry for over 29 years, starting his career in process engineering. He was an Engineering Project manager, a Project Manager and VP Business Development at SBM Offshore and later joined MODEC as VP Project Development. A native of the Netherlands and a US citizen, Eric graduated with a M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Twente in the Netherlands and completed his MBA at Rice University's Jesse H. Jones School of Business in Houston, TX. Eric is married, has two daughters and is currently living in The Hague.